The Australian Government’s National Strategy for Disaster Resilience sets out clear goals regarding community resilience. However, there is a lack of guidance on what is meant by resilience and how it can and should be measured. To address these issues, Risk Frontiers is building on recent research to develop a model for measuring community resilience, based on multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approaches. To be effective, the model must be able to quantitatively measure the change in community resilience across time, or due to some intervention such as the implementation of a community-based disaster risk reduction program. Moreover, the measurement tool must incorporate easily accessed and/or collected data, while avoiding user fatigue. Within this scope, we have identified the constituent elements defining resilience from the literature and garnered expert advice to jointly determine the relevance and relative importance weights of each of these elements. This advice has come from academic experts, government officials and policy makers. The second stage of the project involves testing the model in a community in which there has been no intervention, and at least one community in which a program of resilience building has been implemented. In this paper, we will present the process undertaken to build the community resilience model and discuss the outcomes of field-testing including its functionality in a real-world setting.